Maxwell's equations in materials

Electric displacement

The electric displacement is an auxiliary field defined as

where is the electric field and is the electric polarization density. satisfies Gauß's law for diëlectrics which is analogous to Gauß's law satisfied by , however unlike its curl does not in general vanish ( ).

Linear media

In the special case of a Linear diëlectric

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